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A novel about a murder case
in postwar Germany.

Forced Vengeance . The case of Ellen Rinsche
Volker Mauersberger
Release Date: 25 August 2009

two prosecutors, two judges and six jurors, six good-night, a registrar - seventeen men against a woman. It is an elegantly dressed young woman who lives in a middle Westphalian city. She is married and has one child. Sometimes she wears sunglasses to hide her battered face. Or dresses with long sleeves, so that the blue Spots not seen. One day her husband disappeared. They killed him and stashed away. Her name is Ellen Rinsche, is eight years old and lives in a villa in the middle of the city. Until then, it was of good character. Now it becomes the husband's killer - and thus the incarnation of bourgeois depravity.

A woman's fate and a crime in the early years of the Republic

The well-known journalist Volker Mauersberger describes a murder that occurred in 1949 in Westphalia Gevelsberg, where the author in the fifties, began his career as a local reporter. The incredible crimes then shook the young German republic.

A crime novel that reconstructs a real murder case

with journalistic detail and a keen sense of the spirit and mood of the German post-war period is characterized by Volker Mauersberger a crime that leads into it deep into the post-war German history. Steering clear he describes a nightmarish fate of women, which is so only in the early days of the Republic may carry. Carefully and sensitively all aspects of this fateful connection and dependence of two people are illuminated, at the end is a crime that shakes in its hopelessness. The fate of Ellen Rinsche, which was a murderer, because of their desperate Life situation, no solution was employed, the former ARD correspondent Mauersberger many years. The public was then large proportion of the crime - in the press was stigmatized Rinsche within a short time as emotionally cold and ruthless killer. But what were the real reasons for the crime? With great clarity and accuracy of documentary records Mauersberger a nightmarish fate as thrilling. He is a great novel, and yet succeeded authentic Crime Report.

Volker Mauersberger: cold fury. The case of Ellen Rinsche. Novel. Bound.
Cologne: Emons Verlag 2009th 240 pages. ISBN 978-3-89705-626-8, € 17.90.